Stuart Russell -- Biography

Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics
from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from
Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of
California at Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, holder of the
Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for
Human-Compatible AI. He has served as an Adjunct Professor of
Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco and as Vice-Chair of the
World Economic Forum's Council on AI and Robotics. He is a recipient
of the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science
Foundation, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the World
Technology Award (Policy category), the Mitchell Prize of the American
Statistical Association, and Outstanding Educator Awards from both ACM
and AAAI. From 2012 to 2014 he held the Chaire Blaise Pascal in
Paris. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. His book
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is
the standard text in AI; it has been translated into 13 languages and
is used in over 1300 universities in 118 countries. His research
covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including
machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation,
planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer
vision, computational physiology, and philosophical foundations. He
also works for the United Nations, developing a new global seismic
monitoring system for the nuclear-test-ban treaty. His current
concerns include the threat of autonomous weapons and the long-term
future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.